Books like Siddhartha
If you liked Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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War and Peace
Because shares tags: classics, philosophy.
Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei search for meaning amid the Napoleonic wars.
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Because shares tags: classics, coming of age.
Janie Crawford tells Pheoby about Eatonville life with Logan Killicks, Joe Starks called Jody, and Tea Cake.
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The Trial
Because shares tags: classics, philosophy.
Josef K. is arrested one morning on an unknown charge and pulled into an endless court he can never leave.
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The Prince
Because shares tags: classics, philosophy.
Machiavelli advises Lorenzo on rule through fear and love, fortune, cruelty and mercy.
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The Name of the Rose
Because shares tags: classics, philosophy.
Friar William and Adso investigate 1327 abbey deaths amid library labyrinth.
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The Karamazov Brothers
Because shares tags: classics, philosophy.
Dmitri, Ivan, and Alyosha Karamazov face their father, murder, faith, and doubt in Dostoevsky's final novel.
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Because shares tags: classics, philosophy.
Surgeon Tomas loves Tereza yet keeps mistresses, while artist Sabina and professor Franz test freedom around the 1968 Soviet invasion of…
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The Screwtape Letters
Because shares tags: classics, philosophy.
A senior devil advises his nephew Wormwood on tempting an ordinary Englishman away from faith and attention.
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Because shares tags: philosophy, classics.
Bounty hunter Rick Deckard retires escaped androids in ruined San Francisco while doubting what empathy still means.
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Because shares tags: classics, coming of age.
Paul Bäumer enlists at nineteen and faces the trenches of World War I in Remarque's 1929 classic, told from the German side of the wire.
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Because shares tags: classics, coming of age.
Francie Nolan grows up poor in 1910s Williamsburg, reading on fire escapes while her family scrapes by, and learns how schooling can lift…
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Treasure Island
Because shares tags: classics, coming of age.
Jim Hawkins finds Flint's map, sails with Squire Trelawney's crew that hides pirates, and learns Long John Silver is both cook, friend, and…
